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The sinkhole Corvettes on display. Photos courtesy National Corvette Musuem. The sinkhole that opened up beneath the Skydome of the National Corvette Museum on February 12 had one unforeseen consequence: It has driven museum attendance (and revenue) significantly upward. So when the museum’s board of directors met on Wednesday to Read more
An Alfa Romeo T33TT/3 practices for the 1972 Targa Florio. Still image from video. Michael Keyser was a racer before he was a film producer, and perhaps his inside knowledge of the sport is what makes Keyser’s 1972 documentary The Speed Merchants so gripping. Using star drivers like Mario Andretti Read more
1986 Pontiac Sunbird GT coupe. Photos courtesy of GM Media Archives. The second-generation Pontiac Sunbird, introduced by the automaker for the 1982 model year as the J2000, was built to be an inexpensive and fuel-efficient front-wheel-drive commuter car capable of seating five. As such, it offered little to attract the Read more
1971 AMC Gremlin X. Images courtesy of ProductionCars.com. By the late 1960s, it was apparent that America’s appetite for small, inexpensive and fuel-efficient cars wasn’t going to disappear. To counter this assault on market share, American automakers opened the 1970s with new economy cars of their own, and as this Read more
Context makes all the difference. Most of the photos in our carspotting series show what are now old cars when they were new or relatively new and in their natural elements – out on the streets or in parking lots. But true students of the everyday car should also study Read more
While this 1969 Ford Thunderbird four-door landau for sale on Hemmings.com might need a little bit of patchwork to repair the rust on it, the tinworm isn’t that bad and the car is all there. By which we mean not only that it’s not missing any vital bits, but also Read more
Photo courtesy Pierce-Arrow Museum. Frank Lloyd Wright got many a prediction about modern life correct, from the general layout of houses to the rise and spread of the suburbs, and while hundreds of his prescient designs were actually built during Wright’s lifetime, one – a take on the now-ubiquitous filling Read more
1969 Porsche 917K, chassis 917-024. Photo by Mathieu Heurtault, courtesy Gooding & Company. The Porsche 917K is one of the most iconic endurance racers of the early 1970s, capturing back-to-back victories at Le Mans in 1970 and in 1971. There’s no shortage of famous 917s, but the car perhaps best Read more
The Saab 93 was first introduced to the United States at the 1956 New York Auto Show and would be the first car by the Swedish automobile company available in the States. The overall appearance was similar to the 92, which had been around in Sweden since 1950, but the Read more
Photos courtesy Conam.info. Flour weighs a lot. Especially when you pile bags upon bags of the stuff and try to haul it anywhere, as Smeets of Roermond in the Netherlands discovered. Rather than buy a truck to deliver its flour, however, the bakery had another idea, one which resulted in Read more